BOOKS
Brinley, Maryann Bucknum, and Jacqueline Cochran. Jackie Cochran: The Autobiography of the Greatest Woman Pilot in History. New York, Bantam Books, 1987.
Cole, Jean Hascall. Women Pilots of World War II. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1992.
Davis, Larry, and Don Greer. Walk Around: P-51D, Walk Around No. 7. Carrollton, TX: Squadron/Signals, 1995.
Granger, Byrd Howell. On Final Approach: The Women Air Force Service Pilots of World War II. Scottsdale, AZ: Falconer, 1991.
Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century. Vol. 2. New York: Avon, 1998.
Kinzey, Bert. P-51 Mustang. Carrollton, TX: Squadron/Signal, 1996.
Landdeck, Katherine Sharp. “Experiment in the Cockpit: The Women Air Force Service Pilots of World War II.” In The Airplane in American Culture, edited by Dominick Pisano, 165–98. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003.
Manchester, William. The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932–1972. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown, 1973.
Merryman, Mollie. Clipped Wings: The Rise and Fall of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) of World War II. New York: New York University Press, 1998.
Noggle, Anne. A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. Kindle version.
Whittall, Elizabeth Tompkins. From There to Here. Smithtown, NY: Exposition Press, 1981.
Wood, M. Winifred, and Dorothy Swain Lewis. We Were WASPs. Printed by authors, 1978.
INTERVIEWS
Jim Blunt, telephone interview with author, 2003.
Dr. Judith Duchan, telephone interview with author, January 20, 2003.
Gary Fabian, telephone interviews with author, 2014–2015.
Pat Macha, telephone interviews with author, 2003–2015.
Duncan Miller, telephone interview with author, December 5, 2009.
Elizabeth Tompkins Whittall, telephone interviews with author, 2002–2005.
Laura Whittall-Scherfee and Ken Whittall Scherfee, telephone and personal interviews with author, 2002–2015.
Driscoll, John J., Lieutenant, US Army Air Force, letter to Duncan Miller, 12 December 1944. National Archives, Veterans Service Records.
Geary, Terence, and Andy Hailey. Report of Major Accident, October 26, 1944. US Army Air Force. 2003. www.icc.net/‘cahailey/WASP_KIA/GVTTompkins.html. Website discontinued. Printout in author’s collection.
Kendall, Gene R., Rear Admiral, US Navy, letter to Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, 24 September 1998. Author’s collection. Cites costs of search.
Kolendorski, Stanley Michael, letter to author containing Royal Air Force information about his uncle, 1 August 2003. Author’s collection.
Rohrabacher, Dana, letter to G. Pat Macha on navy response, 22 October 1998. Author’s collection.
Rohrabacher, Dana, letter to Laura Whittall-Scherfee regarding request for navy assistance in search for Gertrude Tompkins, 28 July 1998. Author’s collection.
Tompkins Whittall, Elizabeth, and Paul Whittall, letter to Laura Whittall-Scherfee, 2 April 2010. Author’s collection.
US Army Air Force. Academic Training Record—WASP Training Course, Gertrude Tompkins, Class 43-W-7. Date missing. Author’s collection.
US Army Air Force. Missing Aircraft Report. Date on document obscured, but probably October 31, 1944.
US Army Air Force. Pilot Operation Instructions, North American P-51 Mustang. 1943.
US Army Air Force. 31 teletype messages (TWXs) on the search. Dated from 30 October 1944 to 20 November 1944. Author’s collection.
Yount, Barton K., Commanding General, US Army Air Forces Training Command. Speech to last graduating class of WASPs. December 7, 1944.
NEWSPAPERS
New Zealand newspaper clipping. c. 1933. In possession of Elizabeth Tompkins Whittall’s granddaughter, Laura Whittall-Scherfee. Newspaper’s name is unknown.
Merl, Jean. “Aviation Buffs Hope to Discover Fate of Female War Pilot Who Vanished After Takeoff in 1944.” Los Angeles Times. September 19, 2002.
WEBSITES AND OTHER RESOURCES
Bond, Jill. We Served Too: The Story of the Women Airforce Pilots of World War II. Documentary film. www.wstthemovie.com.
Bravo 369 Flight Foundation website. www.bravo369.org.
Duchan, Judith. “History of Speech-Pathology.” State University of New York at Buffalo. May 12, 2011. www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~duchan/new_history/overview.html.
Fabian, Gary, multibeam sonar searches, http://ub88.org/. Photos of historic wrecks using US Geological Service data. Also www.bathymetricresearch.com and www.facebook.com/bathymetricresearch. The seafloor revealed with multibeam sonar.
“Kermie Cam—P 51C Mustang—Part 3.” YouTube video. 11:45. Posted by “Kermit Weeks Videos.” October 7, 2012. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOXxUApaaWo&feature=youtube.
Landdeck, Katherine Sharp. Texas Women’s University faculty page. November 7, 2016. www.twu.edu/research/katherine-sharp-landdeck.asp.
Macha, G. Pat. “Aircraft Wrecks in the Mountains and Deserts of the American West.” www.aircraftwrecks.com. This site has numerous photos and videos of airplane wrecks in the Western states, as well as comprehensive information on each downed aircraft.
“Nancy Harkness Love.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Harkness_Love.
National Public Radio. “A Contraband Camera: Photos of World War II WASP.” The Picture Show. March 10, 2010. www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2010/03/a_contraband_camera_photos_of.html.
National WASP World War II Museum website. http://waspmuseum.org.
Official Archive, Women Airforce Service Pilots. Texas Women’s University Libraries. www.twu.edu/library/wasp.asp.
“P-51 Mustangs in the air—The P-51 Mustang Video—‘Sketches of Freedom.’” YouTube video. 4:05. Posted by “gregersgram.” July 29, 2009. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xITLBRkOd2k.
“P-51 Pilot Reports.” Warbird Alley. www.warbirdalley.com/articles/p51pr.htm.
Stamberg, Susan. “Female WWII Pilots: The Original Fly Girls.” National Public Radio: Around the Nation and broadcast on Morning Edition. March 9, 2010. www.npr.org/2010/03/09/123773525/female-wwii-pilots-the-original-fly-girls.
US Army Air Force, First Motion Picture Unit. Flight Characteristics of the P-51 Airplane. 1944. www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com/.
Wackerfuss, Dr. Andrew T. “Women’s Airforce Service Pilots.” Air Force Historical Support Division Fact Sheet. September 8, 2015. www.afhso.af.mil/topics/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=15244.
WASP on the Web. www.wingsacrossamerica.us/wasp/index.htm.
“Women Air Force Service Pilots.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_Airforce_Service_Pilots.
ADDITIONAL READING
A WASP Among Eagles: A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II, by WASP Ann Baumgartner Carl.
Dear Mother and Daddy, by WASP Marie Clark.
Flying High, by Betty Greene with Dietrich Buss.
Flying the Zuni Mountains, by Ann Darr.
For God, Country and the Thrill of It: Women Airforce Service Pilots in World War II, Photo portraits and text by WASP Anne Noggle.
Girls Can’t Be Pilots: An Aeriobiography, by WASP Margaret J. Ringenberger with Jane L. Roth.
Girls of Avenger, by WASP Alyce Roher.
How High She Flies: Dorothy Swain Lewis, WASP of World War II, Horsewoman, Artist, Teacher, by Ann L. Cooper with Dorothy Swain Lewis.
Love at First Flight: One Woman’s Experience as a WASP in World War II and Fifty Years Later She’s Still Flying, by WASP Elizabeth Strohfus as told to Cheryl Young.
Out of the Blue and Into History, by WASP Betty Stagg Turner.
Sisters of the Sky, Volumes I and II, by WASP Adela Rick Scharr.
WASP Letters Home, by WASP Bee Haydu.
WASPs in Their Own Words: An Illustrated History of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII, by Nancy Parrish.
WASPS: Women Airforce Service Pilots in World War II, by Vera S. Williams.
Wings, WASPs and Warriors, by Travis Moody.
Wingtip to Wingtip: 8 WASPs, Women’s Airforce Service Pilots of World War II, by Marjorie H. Roberts.
Winning My Wings: A Woman Airforce Service Pilot in World War II, by WASP Marion Stegemen Hodgson.
Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II, the WASP, by J. David Dameron.
Women Aviators: 26 Stories of Pioneer Flights, Daring Missions, and Record-Setting Journeys, by Karen Bush Gibson.
Women Who Dared: American Female Test Pilots, Flight Test Engineers, and Astronauts, by Lt. Col. Yvonne “Pat” Pateman, USAF (retired).
Yankee Doodle Gals: Women Pilots of World War II, by Amy Nathan.
Zoot-Suits and Parachutes and Wings of Silver, Too! The World War II Air Force Training of Women Pilots, 1942–1944, by WASP Doris Brinker Tanner.